Unit 5: Great Depression
Known as "Black Thursday," this followed a massive, overinflated 1920s boom, wiping out billions in value.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Whhat is McCarthysim?
A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.
What is the Vietnam War?
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
Who is MLK Jr?
launched into theorhectical orbit during nuclear testing.
What is a manhole cover?
provided help for people that were old aged, unemployed, or disabled; founded in 1935
What is Social Security Act?
United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
began as a civil war between North and South Korea (which had been established by the USSR and US respectively), but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S. leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea and China entered to aid North Korea. The war left Korea divided along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. Widely credited as helping lead to the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the National Voting Rights Act (1965). 80% of the marchers were black. Organized by union leader A. Philip Randolph.
What is March on Washington?
Approximately, how many people did dropping the atomic bomb kill?
110,000
Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages.
Dust Bowl
US policy to stop expansion of Soviet Union and Communism
What is Containment?
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
What is Domino Theory?
1965; invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks; as more blacks became politically active and elected black representatives, it brought jobs, contracts, and facilities and services for the black community, encouraging greater social equality and decreasing the wealth and education gap
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1965?
Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965.
Who is Malcolm X?
4 laws passed in the late 1930s that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
To rebuild Europe following WW2.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Created in response to formation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern U.S. in 1961. They wanted to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation in seating and bus terminals and the non-enforcement of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions, which ruled segregated public buses unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did not enforce them. Helped push Kennedy towards supporting civil rights.
Who are the Freedom Riders?
unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Brown claimed that Topeka's racial segregation violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because the city's black and white schools were not equal to each other and never could be. Overruled Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine and would eventually led to the desegregation of schools across the South
Brown vs. Board of Education
Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Encouraged Citizens to grow their own food so soliders would have more.
What are Victory Gardens?
Major Cold War confrontation during JFK Presidency.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1957 - Governor Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. Eisenhower sent in U.S. paratroopers to ensure the students could attend class.
Who/what is the Little Rock Nine/Crisis
a toxic leaf-killing chemical sprayed by U.S. planes in Vietnam to expose Vietcong hideouts
What is Agent Orange?